Who's the winner?!

I hope no one has missed me too much in the blogging world. I'm sure my adoring fan(s) have been eagerly anticipating my next post. So here it is. This post is dedicated to you, whoever you are.

Wow, God has been doing so much amazing stuff in my life. Painful yes, but so deeply changing. I've experienced His joy, known His grace and peace. When I think about it all I get a sense of Gods great love for me. For me!

Get comfy, this could be a long post...

Story One
At our last prayer and praise night God gave me a picture that I used during the ministry time at Kids Rock. We were singing a Brooke Frasers song...

"You are, the Lord God almighty,
I fall, at your feet,
And I fall, oceans short of your glory
Yet you stoop down to make me great..."

As we sung that I knelt down and pictured God's hugeness, and the great gap between me and Him, because really, I'm nothing. But He came closer to me, bent down and looked at me in the eyes. He laid His huge hand infront of me me and invited me to climb into His palm. I clambered up and sat in the middle. He lifted me high. Normally I'd be freaked of being that high up, but I knew I was safe, I was in GOD's hand. Then He showed me to the world, He pointed at me and said "This is My girl!".

At Kids Rock I asked all the kids to close their eyes and picture that happening. There was complete silence in the room and an amazing gentle sense of the presence of God in the room. God was really doing stuff in these kids lives :+)

Story Two
Evangelsim.
Something I know I should be doing. Something I've been trained to do. I've got the tools, I've got the friends to do it with. Even though its been my "priority", it hasn't really been my priority. Last weekend we had Julian down again, teaching us how to teach the slides that he has developed that expose why we haven't been evangelising. I went with him on Sunday and he shared with two girls using his pda thingy. Very cool. The girls said that it was the clearest they have ever heard it explained.

Tuesday morning the strangest thing happened. I woke up actually wanting to share the gospel. I really really wanted to. As I walked up the steps towards my brothers house before dinner, I asked God to give me a chance to practice the red book on someone (thinking they would all be Christian). Then I heard this little voice: "you should pray that you get to practice it on a non-Christian". I really didn't think there would be, but I prayed it anyway. Sure enough, there was a girl there who's not yet a Christian, and I got to "practice" on her! OK, so I could have presented it better, but I'm in the game now! No more excusses!

We're gonna try a giant version of the red book at kids church. Can't wait!

Story Three
Today as I drove into church I suddenly felt really ill. It felt like I had knives stabbing my guts. I couldn't stand up for long and I really felt I was going to chunder. Felling a little sorry for myself I went to lie down. A bunch of people in the office had prayed for me, so I was reasoning why I wasn't getting better. For goodness sake, I should know better then that by now! I started to worship God as I lay there. Eventually I stood up and walked around a bit. Still worshiping. Each time I began to worship it got a little worse then eased off. After about half an hour of that it went away altogether. I don't know weather it was a spiritual thing or purely physical, but it sure tested me. The last thing anyone feels like doing when the feel ill is worship. But the devil just can't stand it when we do! Whatever caused the pain couldn't stand me worshipping God, thats for sure! Yay God, He wins! No matter how crap we feel He's still God. He's still the winner.

Well, the rest is'nt really share storys, but be asured, God is good!

Music: Eight, Unfinished Archive Demos
Beverage: Cappachino with chocolate sprinkles